The DOI matches its Crossref record; 10 of the 10 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Arginase and vascular aging
Open accessAbstract
Vascular and associated ventricular stiffness is one of the hallmarks of the aging cardiovascular system. Both an increase in reactive oxygen species production and a decrease in nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability contribute to the endothelial dysfunction that underlies this vascular stiffness, independent of other age-related vascular pathologies such as atherosclerosis. The activation/upregulation of arginase appears to be an important contributor to age-related endothelial dysfunction by a mechanism that involves substrate (l-arginine) limitation for NO synthase (NOS) 3 and therefore NO synthesis. Not only does this lead to impaired NO production but also it contributes to the enhanced production of reactive oxygen species by NOS. Although arginase abundance is increased in vascular aging models, it appears that posttranslational modification by S-nitrosylation of the enzyme enhances its activity as well. The S-nitrosylation is mediated by the induction of NOS2 in the endothelium. Furthermore, arginase activation contributes to aging-related vascular changes by mechanisms that are not directly related to changes in NO signaling, including polyamine-dependent vascular smooth muscle proliferation and collagen synthesis. Taken together, arginase may represent an as yet elusive target for the modification of age-related vascular and ventricular stiffness contributing to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Hemodynamic Patterns of Age-Related Changes in Blood Pressure: The Framingham Heart Study
Franklin, S. S., Gustin, W., Wong, N. D., Larson, M. G., Weber, M. A., Kannel, W. B., & Levy, D. (1997) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/01.cir.96.1.308 · Cited by 2,321
Lakatta, E. G., & Levy, D. (2003) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000048892.83521.58 · Cited by 2,244
Arterial Stiffness and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: The Rotterdam Study
Mattace-Raso, F. U. S., van der Cammen, T. J. M., Hofman, A., van Popele, N. M., Bos, M. L., Schalekamp, M. A. D. H., Asmar, R., Reneman, R. S., Hoeks, A. P. G., Breteler, M. M. B., et al. (2006) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/circulationaha.105.555235 · Cited by 1,914
ARGINASE: A CRITICAL REGULATOR OF NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHESIS AND VASCULAR FUNCTION
Durante, W., Johnson, F. K., & Johnson, R. A. (2007) · Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology · doi:10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04638.x · Cited by 577 · cited 1×
“Ornithine, the product of the conversion of L-arginine to urea is the precursor for the synthesis of primary amino acid, proline and the polyamine-derived amino acids, spermidine and spermine, that could be important in altering vascular properties(30).”
O’Rourke, M. F., & Nichols, W. W. (2005) · Hypertension · doi:10.1161/01.hyp.0000153793.84859.b8 · Cited by 543
Structure of a unique binuclear manganese cluster in arginase
Kanyo, Z. F., Scolnick, L. R., Ash, D. E., & Christianson, D. W. (1996) · Nature · doi:10.1038/383554a0 · Cited by 441
Self-citationXu, W., Kaneko, F. T., Zheng, S., Comhair, S. A. A., Janocha, A. J., Goggans, T., Thunnissen, F. B. J. M., Farver, C., Hazen, S. L., Jennings, C., et al. (2004) · The FASEB Journal · doi:10.1096/fj.04-2317fje · Cited by 369
Hsu, L. L., Champion, H. C., Campbell-Lee, S. A., Bivalacqua, T. J., Manci, E. A., Diwan, B. A., Schimel, D. M., Cochard, A. E., Wang, X., Schechter, A. N., et al. (2007) · Blood · doi:10.1182/blood-2006-08-039438 · Cited by 263
Endothelial Arginase II: A Novel Target for the Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Ryoo, S., Gupta, G., Benjo, A., Lim, H. K., Camara, A., Sikka, G., Lim, H. K., Sohi, J., Santhanam, L., Soucy, K., et al. (2008) · Circulation Research · doi:10.1161/circresaha.107.169573 · Cited by 236
Self-citationNitric Oxide Synthase Activity Is Elevated in Brain Microvessels in Alzheimer′s Disease
Dorheim, M. A., Tracey, W. R., Pollock, J. S., & Grammas, P. (1994) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1006/bbrc.1994.2716 · Cited by 216
Cited by
Protein S-nitrosylation in health and disease: a current perspective
Foster, M. W., Hess, D. T., & Stamler, J. S. (2009) · Trends in Molecular Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2009.06.007 · Cited by 752
Aging and vascular endothelial function in humans
Seals, D. R., Jablonski, K. L., & Donato, A. J. (2011) · Clinical Science · doi:10.1042/cs20100476 · Cited by 725
The Aging Cardiovascular System
Paneni, F., Diaz Cañestro, C., Libby, P., Lüscher, T. F., & Camici, G. G. (2017) · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.01.064 · Cited by 618
Eelen, G., de Zeeuw, P., Treps, L., Harjes, U., Wong, B. W., & Carmeliet, P. (2018) · Physiological Reviews · doi:10.1152/physrev.00001.2017 · Cited by 572
Recent advances in arginine metabolism: roles and regulation of the arginases
Morris Jr, S. M. (2009) · British Journal of Pharmacology · doi:10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00278.x · Cited by 485
Metadata
- Authors
- Santhanam, L., Christianson, D. W., Nyhan, D., & Berkowitz, D. E.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Physiology
- Publisher
- American Physiological Society
- Published
- 2008-11
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1632-1642
- ISSN
- 0161-7567 (ISSN-L)
- 8750-7587
- 1522-1601
- OpenAlex
- W2156537912
- Cited by
- 165
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 6.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Arginase and vascular aging. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1152/japplphysiol.90627.2008
- The paper
- Santhanam, L., Christianson, D. W., Nyhan, D., & Berkowitz, D. E. (2008). Arginase and vascular aging. Journal of Applied Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.90627.2008
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
